Islam vs. America: The Constitutional Question Nobody Wants To Answer

Americans recently commemorated the 25^th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks that shocked the entire world on September 11, 2001. Without question, that event was one of the most earth-shaking events of our nation’s history. Shockingly, it is also one of the most misremembered and misrepresented events of our times.

We now know that the Clinton administration had been warned about the possibility of a massive terrorist attack led by Osama bin Laden and his forces aligned with Al-Qaeda. Those warnings had been passed on to the incoming George W. Bush administration, which was nonetheless taken by surprise when the 9/11 attacks took place at a scale far deadlier than previously imagined. There was absolutely no question that the attacks had been motivated by Islamic ideology and undertaken by Islamist forces. Nevertheless, President Bush argued that the terrorists were not motivated by Islam itself, but by a depraved ideology that wrongly claimed Islamic credibility.